Hearts Gone Black

Hearts Gone Black is a top-down zombie survival game set years after a failed experiment changed humanity forever.
The dead now walk with black hearts, the world is broken, and the few survivors left are forced to live in abandoned rural towns, ruined homes, and unsafe shelters. You are not a hero. You are one of the few people still breathing, trying to keep yourself and your group alive for one more day.
Scavenge abandoned houses, gather resources, craft tools, research upgrades, grow food, and defend your base from infected creatures and hostile survivors. Every run outside the safety of your shelter is a risk. Supplies are limited, the world is dangerous, and every decision can cost you time, resources, or people.
Survival is not only about fighting. Hunger, thirst, sanity, morale, weather, and injuries all matter. Your survivors need food, rest, protection, and purpose. Assign them to stations, manage your base, and decide what is worth spending your limited resources on.
The world of Hearts Gone Black is quiet and dangerous. You will search empty homes, walk through forgotten villages, fight the infected, and make difficult choices in a world where the need to survive can slowly change what people become — and what their hearts turn into.

FEATURES
Top-down survival horror gameplay

Scavenge, loot, craft, gather, mine, hunt, and manage limited resources

Fight infected enemies with firearms, explosives, tactical consumables, and melee weapons

Craft and deploy barricades, traps, and gadgets to survive horde attacks

Manage your base and assign survivors to different stations

Over 300 items across Crafting, cooking, research, farming, and storage systems

Survival needs including hunger, thirst, energy, morale, health, and sanity

Dynamic weather with harsh environmental conditions and debuffs

Endgame extraction and base defense horde events with 5 difficulty tiers

Bleak post-apocalyptic rural setting

Moral choices tied to survival, sacrifice, and what people are willing to become

Survivors Management:

Hearts Gone Black is a game about surviving after the world has already lost.
The question is not only how long you can stay alive, but what kind of person you become while doing it.

*Developer Note: Hearts Gone Black is a solo-developed indie survival horror game planned for release in Q1 2027. More systems, content, balancing, and polish are still in development